The Real Housewife of Ciudad Juarez
The Real Housewife of Ciudad Juarez
By Debbie Nathan, The Texas Observer It’s 5:45 a.m. on a Monday, and we’re stuck in traffic, slowly inching northward on a bridge that joins Mexico to the United States at […]
What Latino Community?
By Hector Luis Alamo, Jr., Gozamos The Atlantic slave trade stripped many black people of their heritage to the point where they refer to themselves nowadays with the simple label “African […]
A Sip of Heaven: Chocolate Champurrado
By Brenda Storch, La Vitamina T “Es tan santo el chocolate, que de rodillas se muele, juntas las manos se bate y viendo al cielo se bebe.” -Refrán popular mexicano […]
Mayan medicine: Ancient holistic healing
By Hope Gillette, Saludify When you hear “Mayas” you probably think of pyramids or even end-of-the-world prophecies. But the Mayan cultures are actually so much more complex than that. All of […]
Asylum From Violence
By Andres Caballero, Latino USA After the kidnapping and beheading of the police chief in a Mexican border town, no one dared to replace him. But Marisol Valles Garcia, a twenty-year-old […]
Mexico´s First Openly Gay Mayor Doesn’t Back Gay Marriage
By Manuel Rueda, ABC/Univision Benjamin Medrano is the first openly gay mayor in Mexico. But he opposes gay marriage. Medrano, 47, recently won the election in Fresnillo, a conservative and […]
Mexico: Will Los Zetas Unravel Without Their Leader?
By Stratfor Summary The arrest of Los Zetas leader Miguel “Z-40” Trevino Morales marks the most significant capture involving a Mexican organized crime leader since 2008. On July 15, Stratfor […]
Let There Be Fire! – The Universal Language of Grilling
By Brenda Storch, La Vitamina T Summer is finally here, and in these latitudes, barbecue season often evokes images of sporting events and patriotic-themed cookouts. Of course, you need weather […]
The Other Mexicans
By Katya Cengel, National Geographic On a dusty highway in California’s Central Valley, a black Chevy truck heads toward bright fields of grapes dotting the barren brown earth. It is a […]
Harvard rechaza que haya invitado a niño prodigio mexicano
Por Animal Político La Universidad de Harvard negó que haya invitado o haya inscrito al niño prodigio mexicano Luis Roberto Ramírez Álvarez para estudiar Física Cuántica en sus instalaciones, como ha trascendido […]